1 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would like to thank the people of the MIP for their welcome and specially Mr. Jorge Diaz and the Empresa de Camaronicultura for their kindness and administrative help.

Special thanks to Melanio Borrero and Mario Formoso for their help on the field and to smooth all the little details to procure me the best possible working conditions.

Thanks to the people of Frank Pais for the understanding of the biological needs and the possibility to include them in their everyday production task.

Thanks to everybody for their patience and their help in front of my impatience and “electrical” agitation, my non existing Spanish, and my French accent.

I would like to thank Bruno Menu IFREMER/GIERA for its gracious personnel advises and its report which helps me a lot in the development of this mission. All the maps are from its report with just little adds on.
(Contract FAO N^o DP /CUB/86 /004-2/F10).

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Last minute note:
Before going to Cuba I never heard of the Maguey. Back in France, what was my surprise to read about it in a French newspaper, and to see a plant growing in Brest, at the IFREMER entrance on the left side!